Regenerative Ecology
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Thomas Berry - Eco Prophet
In his major works, The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story, and The Great Work, cultural historian, Thomas Berry (d.2009) describes how Western religion and culture have created an estranged, unsustainable relationship between humans and the Earth. This dysfunctional relationship is reflected by our economic model of limitless growth and in the technological “wonderworld” created and sustained by our electronic media and corporate advertising.
To heal this condition, which he described as a "distortion of the Sacred," Berry described a new cosmology and mythic consciousness (Great Story), capable of reuniting humans with the creative energy of the Universe. He sought to re-unify science and religion through an "Earth Spirituality" that affirms the spiritual potential of matter, fundamentally changing how we experience the material and living worlds.
Photosynthesis is the foundation of every economy, and human life flourishes in a narrow window that may well be in jeopardy
John McMillan
Dr. McMillin is probably best known for his work to end the Ethiopian famine of the 1980’s. One of the prime inspirations for our starting the Institute for ReGenerative Learning has been the impact that John has had on each of us. Both his capacity to maintain a positive attitude in the most trying of circumstances, and his post conventional, interdisciplinary knowledge, that allows him to solve systemic problems in a comprehensive way, are fundamental to our sense of purpose.
John is an exemplar of a Solutionary, a master mentor and a creative problem solver.
Give a man a fish... and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to catch a fish.... and you feed him 'till the fish are gone. Teach a man to raise a fish...and you feed him and his family for life.
Local Food: A Vehicle to Reconnect Nature & Culture
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"My premise is cooking --that defined broadly enough to take in the whole spectrum of techniques people have devised for transforming the raw stuff of nature into nutritious and appealing things for us to eat and drink--Is one of the most interesting and worthwhile things we humans do. This is not something I fully appreciated before I set out to learn how to cook. But after three years spent working under a succession of gifted teachers to master four of the transformations we call cooking --Grilling with fire, Cooking with liquid, Baking bread, and Fermenting all sorts of things--I am especially proud of my bread and some of my brazes.
But I also learned things about the natural world (and our participation in it) that I don't think I could've learned any other way. I learned far more than I ever expected to about the nature of work, the meaning of health, about tradition and ritual, self-reliance and community, the rhythms of every day life, and the supreme satisfaction of producing something I previously only could've imagined consuming, And doing it outside of the cash economy for no other reason but love." Michael Pollan - Cooked